The Invention of Law in the West [Italian]

by Aldo Schiavone

Law is a specific form of social regulation distinct from religion, ethics, and even politics, and endowed with a strong and autonomous rationality. Its invention, a crucial aspect of Western history, took place in ancient Rome. Aldo Schiavone, a world-renowned classicist, reconstructs this development with clear-eyed passion, following its course over the centuries, setting out from the earliest origins and moving up to the threshold of Late Antiquity...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: Italian
• ISBN: 0674047338
• ISBN13: 9780674047334
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 640 Pages
• Weight: 2.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.7" x 9.5"